Winogrand's camera

[SDK]

I've read in several places that he had a minimum of two M4 bodies.

Very late in his life he also purchased a winder, which means he must have owned an M camera with the motor sprocket (M4-2, M4-P, M6, M6ttl, M7, MP etc)

Well, Winogrand might have had an M6, but nothing later, since he died in 1984.

Geoff Winningham, one of my photo instructors at Rice U. was friends with Winogrand when Gary taught at The University of Texas. Geoff said that oddly enough that Gary bought an 8X10" view camera late in his life, but never got around to using it. Geoff described visiting Winogrand once after Gary had been on a trip. Geoff was surprised to see Gary had a couple garbage bags full of film to be developed, from that trip!

 

[ChrisN]

I'd heard that too, but looking from Figments from the Real World last night, I can see a lot of shots that would indicate (from perpestive, DOF) a lens of at least 50mm.

How many rolls of film did he leave after his death? I'm just looking for some reassurance after staring at 50 sheets of unscanned, unprinted negs over the weekend...

"Garry Winogrand died of cancer at age 56 in 1984 and left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of processed film, 3,000 rolls of contact sheets that evidently hadn't been looked at--a total of 12,000 rolls, or 432,000 photos Winogrand took but never saw. Some of these images were published posthumously in Figments from The Real World."​

Mason Resnick - http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/xtol1.html

 

[Robin Harrison]

"Garry Winogrand died of cancer at age 56 in 1984 and left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of processed film, 3,000 rolls of contact sheets that evidently hadn't been looked at--a total of 12,000 rolls, or 432,000 photos Winogrand took but never saw. Some of these images were published posthumously in Figments from The Real World."​

Mason Resnick - http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/xtol1.html

Yikes.

What a man.

 

[Simon Larbalestier]

"Garry Winogrand died of cancer at age 56 in 1984 and left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of processed film, 3,000 rolls of contact sheets that evidently hadn't been looked at--a total of 12,000 rolls, or 432,000 photos Winogrand took but never saw. Some of these images were published posthumously in Figments from The Real World."​

Mason Resnick - http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/xtol1.html

Chris thanks for posting this link it makes a fascinating read and straight away i ordered up a copy of his Figments of the Real World off Amazon (sadly not a new copy).

Once in while this forum comes up with some real gems of information this is one of them! 🙂